To all my fellow Scots ............

[Kaz]

Happy Burns Night! :hello:

Hope you've all enjoyed your haggis, neeps & tatties tonight! :thumbs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/images/news/haggismeal_300x193.jpg

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o the puddin'-race!

:bigsmile:

[EugeneSully]

ewww no lol I just had sweet and sour pork!! HEHE


Hope you enjoyed your's hun! :xyxwave:

[Kaz]

:xyxwave:

Aye, I did indeed! :thumbs:


Ye cannae whack it. :tongue:

[EugeneSully]

I dinnae like wha' Haggis is made o'....


:tongue::tongue::tongue: smilie!! new one!!

[Arneldo]

Whats Haggis?

[EugeneSully]

its like liver heart and other lambs body bits put together... and some other normal ingredients.

I don't personally like it. Used to until I found out what was in it. :thumbs:

[John72]

Happy Burns Night to all of you in Scotland. :elephant:

[Pipergun]

I might be wrong, but isn't is sheep's intestine, sheeps bladder or something similar? Not my favourite dish! :laugh:

[EugeneSully]

Originally posted by Pipergun
I might be wrong, but isn't is sheep's intestine, sheeps bladder or something similar? Not my favourite dish! :laugh:

Got it in a oner!! (almost) :spin2:

[Kaz]

Originally posted by Pipergun
I might be wrong, but isn't is sheep's intestine, sheeps bladder or something similar? Not my favourite dish! :laugh:

Haggis ingredients:

Sheep's heart, lungs and liver (cleaned by a butcher)
Beef or lamb trimmings
3 cups finely chopped suet
One cup medium ground oatmeal
Two medium onions, finely chopped
One cup beef stock
One teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
One teaspoon nutmeg
½ teaspoon mace

Traditionally cooked in a sheep's stomach, but most of the ones you buy in the shops are in a plastic bag! :tongue:

[EugeneSully]

youre joking??? are sausages made in sheep intestines?

[Kaz]

Originally posted by EugeneSully
youre joking??? are sausages made in sheep intestines?

Sausage skins are tradionally made from sheep's intestines, but some of the mass produced ones you buy in supermarkets are made from cellulose! :shocked:

[EugeneSully]

Ewww what's celloluse?

[Kaz]

Too complicated to explain in a few words, Steph ............ but read THIS (http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/news/2002/0602/sausageskin.html) ..... think
it tells you what you want to know. :thumbs:

[EugeneSully]

it doesn't work Kaz. It just comes up with a welcome smilie.


Will ask Biology teacher tomorrow. Should waste some of the lesson! :spin:

[Kaz]

It does now, Steph ...... I've sorted the link. Sorry. :blush:

[EugeneSully]

Thankz Kaz! Never knew sausage skin could be so complicated!! :bigsmile:

[Z]

Happy Burns Night Kaz!


Tis a braw bricht moonlicht nicht.

As they say. :laugh:

My dinner looked identical to that photo!

[Kaz]

Glad to hear it, Ziola ....... hope you enjoyed your's as much as I did! :thumbs: :xyxwave:

O, my luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O, my luve is like a melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
till a' the seas gang dry.
Adn I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.

Awwwwwwww. http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/liebe/a082.gif

[lily.]

Thanx Kaz, and a happy burns night to you too, from the land o burns here in Ayrshire.

Although, I don't really celebrate it. I can't stand the thought of haggis, and I was catering for 60 pre-school kids today whilst listening to a piper and some traditional scottish songs being belted out by the kids!..

*oh ye cannae shove yer granny aff a bus....:laugh:

[Kaz]

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Did they sing this one ...............

Oh ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty story flat,
Seven hundred hungry weans will testify tae that.
If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid is plain or pan,
The odds against it reaching earth are ninety-nine tae wan.

The Jeely Piece Song. Pure class. :thumbs: :laugh:

[James]

I remember at when I was at school I won (jointly) a Burns recital contest. Well chuffed, I was.

The poem was called 'To a mountain daisy'. :hugesmile:

Wee, modest crimson-tipped flow'r,
Thou's met me in an evil hour;
For I maun crush amang the stoure
Thy slender stem:
To spare thee now is past my pow'r,
Thou bonie gem.

http://www.robertburns.org/works/100.shtml

[BigSister]

Happy Burns Night to the TIBB Scottish members:dance:

[ThaGazBoi]

Happy Burns night Scotland people! :tongue:

..Is it something to do with Pete Burns??

[lily.]

Originally posted by James
I remember at when I was at school I won (jointly) a Burns recital contest. Well chuffed, I was.

The poem was called 'To a mountain daisy'. :hugesmile:

Wee, modest crimson-tipped flow'r,
Thou's met me in an evil hour;
For I maun crush amang the stoure
Thy slender stem:
To spare thee now is past my pow'r,
Thou bonie gem.

http://www.robertburns.org/works/100.shtml

They really go in for it at the schools round here though, don't they. I didn't realise it was really bothered about in schools outwith Ayrshire.

We were teaching the weans this one today:


SOME HAE MEAT AN' CANNA EAT
AND SOME WAD EAT THAT WANT IT
BUT WE HAE MEAT AN' WE CAN EAT
AND SAE THE LORD BE THANKIT.

[Kaz]

:shocked:

Does this look like Pete Burns? :spin2:

http://www.nls.uk/burns/images/burns_r2_c8%20copy2.jpg

Robert Burns. (1759 - 1796)

Robert Burns was born into a farming family at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759. He died in Dumfries at the early age of 37. Yet in that short time he had taken the Scottish literary world by storm, and had secured a place for himself in history and in legend.

Here endeth your Scottish history lesson for today. :tongue:

[lily.]

Originally posted by Kaz
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Did they sing this one ...............

Oh ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty story flat,
Seven hundred hungry weans will testify tae that.
If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the breid is plain or pan,
The odds against it reaching earth are ninety-nine tae wan.

The Jeely Piece Song. Pure class. :thumbs: :laugh:

Puts me in mind o a big ootsider on a Mothers Pride loaf! ha ha

[ThaGazBoi]

Originally posted by Kaz
:shocked:

Does this look like Pete Burns? :spin2:

http://www.nls.uk/burns/images/burns_r2_c8%20copy2.jpg

Robert Burns. (1759 - 1796)

Robert Burns was born into a farming family at Alloway in Ayrshire in 1759. He died in Dumfries at the early age of 37. Yet in that short time he had taken the Scottish literary world by storm, and had secured a place for himself in history and in legend.

Here endeth your Scottish history lesson for today. :tongue:

Oo thanks Kaz. I learn something new everyday! :elephant:

[Lance]

Happy Burns Night, Scotties.:wink:

Errr... what is Burns night?:blush:

[EugeneSully]

poetry and haggis basically lol ...

[Kaz]

:laugh:

That's about it, Steph. :thumbs:

For Lance ........... At a traditional Burns Supper, the meal usually starts off with cock-a-leekie soup (chicken & leek! :laugh:), followed by haggis, neeps and tatties.

The haggis is ceremonially piped in, and someone recites Rabbie Burns' poem 'Address To A Haggis', after which they're toasted with a glass of Scotch whisky.

Often the hn&t is followed by steak pie and all the trimmings, and sometimes even trifle! :laugh:

And there's always a rendition of 'Tam O'Shanter' ...... brilliant! :spin2:

Google for the poems if you've never heard of them before ......... go on, you know you want to! :tongue:

[Lance]

Is it like a National feast day or something like that? Like we have Paddy's Day?

[BB-Rocks]

Happy burns day to every1 from yesterday (i'm a bit late)

[Z]

I'm shocked at the number of people who don't know what Burns Night is! *gasp*